The Institutional Risk Analyst

A nation of 1.5 billion souls is being held hostage by a criminal gang called the Chinese Communist Party.

Home prices are galloping along at double-digit monthly growth rates, the highest levels of increase seen in a century....

After years of FOMC-induced asset price inflation, does the housing market really need more help?

In the Q3 2021 edition of The IRA Bank Book, we document the slow destruction of US bank asset and equity returns by the FOMC.

When Treasury market yields trade and stay negative, look for the Federal Reserve Board to come to the rescue of MM funds and banks.

Which US financial will best weather the coming equity market correction?

If we told you that a group of banks and REITs outperformed fintech stocks during the first nine months of 2021, what would you say?

Progressives in and outside of the media are on a mission, to find a problem to solve – even if none actually exists...

U.S. Bancorp, PNC and Truist Financial hold great value creation potential. But which is likely to realize this potential?

We expect to see a lot more M&A activity over the next 12 – 18 months, as that’s the only way for some players to grow share.

There is, after all, no free lunch for investors when the Fed is serving the thin meal of Financial Repression

Growing numbers of investors are burned by mortgage stocks. Big question: Will the industry snap back due to now falling interest rates?

The big surge in income and net worth caused by the FOMC last year is rapidly ending. Winter has returned to mortgage land...

Many of the changes to the US Treasury and REPO markets that were predicted in our comment this past May are coming to fruition.

Beijing will not allow Chinese firms to list their shares offshore unless they ensure that their business and the related data are protected

Could the tether market and a small, little-known private bank in the Bahamas be the precursor of the next systemic market event in the US?

BAC is the worst performing bank in the top-five US commercial banks and often underperforms the average for Peer Group 1.

This rule could cost literally tens of billions in losses to banks and nonbanks alike...

WISE is a play on the relentless advance of technology that lowers costs and eventually forces change in the legacy world of banking and pay

Cheap liquidity c/o the FOMC does little for bank earnings when asset returns are also falling